LRT: The idea of adding to infinity ("you can't do it, you'd still be adding when the sun went out") has me thinking of that short story I wrote where an immortal being trapped in an endless void tries to count to infinity to pass the time and eventually runs out of named numbers
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It knows about googolplex but it can't actually keep counting up to it because there's such an incomprehensible expanse of nameless numbers between the highest sequential named number and googolplex
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Well you can always construct new names for numbers, if we didn't have the word "billion" you could just say "thousand million", and then "million million"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah I explained that away as the entity having considered that but "not really feeling all that creative"
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I mean really if you're just doing this for the sake of doing it you could do it just by reciting the string of digits
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